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Good morning Rose and Admin and Spence. Are youse guys back to the land of the living? We here have been very worried about you.

Kat and Orion sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Is it our imagination or is Kat now redder than before we sang that song? heh heh

We here were disappointed as always in what we got to see of Westminster, which wasn’t much since Mom and Pop were both not feeling tip top and wanted to go to bed. But we did see the Working Dogs (our group). The Siber that wins Best of Breed is always silver, never filled out, and never striking looking. We wouldn’t have picked him for Best in the group either. We would, however, have picked that Saint. What a gorgeous dog!

In an article in the NYTimes, the handler of Banana Joe (Joey) said: “This isn’t a breed you train. He’s like a human. You befriend him.” He has a great personality though I did want Jewel, the American Foxhound, to win. And Fifi, the Doberman, was back. She is so beautiful.

There was, however, one spooky thing that happened during the show. We knew that Wookie was not a purebred golden, but had always assumed that grandma had strayed with a chow, because certain of his features were chow like. However, the face on the Tibetan mastiff was Wookie’s face in almost every respect, and we are now wondering if grandma strayed a little farther afield than we had realized.

Also, today is the annual quiltathon for Debbie’s quilt guild. Fifty plus quilters, 22 quilts to make for charity, and one day to do it. In the past we held it in our house, but this year the group got to be so large that they are doing it in a nearby church (where they also have their regular meetings). This will be the first quiltathon that Wookie has not supervised in person, but I know, even from the other side of the bridge, he will be looking out for all his quilt ladies and keeping them in line.

Wookie!…I will be thinking of Debbie today – I know this must be very hard for her…sniffle!…Here’s to a great quilting day. I hope those ladies behave, I know Wookie always kept them in line, especially during the lunch buffet…heh!

We will be thinking of Debbie LM today. Probably better that this first one without Wookie is held at another place. Wonder how Grandpa is doing.

We did not watch the dog show either. Barb crashed and went to bed a little after 8:00 last night and stayed in bed till 6:00 this morning. No tv in the bedroom, so she was SOL.

Glad that California LAPD mess is over. He definitely did not handle the situation properly, but we bet that he was fired without reason, and just fell off the deep end emotionally. The LAPD has a less than stellar rep.

Fellow Sibers, I never see any mud living where I live…just dust and sand. I have started to shed now. Clumps of hair are coming out. Mom likes the way the groomer gets all that hair out and does the extras like my toenails. The bottom line here is that mom does not want to do the bath or anything else. It takes more than one person to do the groominng thing on me.

New England news station states that most of Cape Cod is still without power. They don’t expect it to be restored before midnight TOMORROW.
Really hope Spence and family are staying someplace warm.
(And Spence- affen translates to “monkey”)

The rents hardly ever bathe us either. We are pretty good at cleaning ourselves up, cat-style (as embarrassing as that is to admit). When we get to shedding stage, then Mom likes to take us to the groomer to get defurminated. Sometimes, we also go before Christmas so everybody things we are so fluffy and we gets lots of pets. 🙂
As to our toenails, they are terrible. Mom is thinking of taking us over to the groomer just to get them trimmed, because both of them are afraid to do it. Sibes do NOT like our feet messed with.

We were all set to watch the Show last night and discovered too late that broadcast had been delayed (as someone warned us the other night). The last few minutes were spent flipping between channels.
Someone here is disappointed the Smooth Fox Terrier in the final cut didn’t win and thinks the Golden was robbed. Grump. The judges are obviously prejudiced toward particular breeds. So many of the ones we liked were over-looked.
Speaking of which, we are thinking a certain Golden we all Know and Love will be having a very busy day supervising his mom and the ladies in the quilting guild.

Oleys and Siber-H. If you want any tips on how to avoid nail trimming, just call on moi. Barb says in all her years, she has never seen another dog like me. Is that a compliment?

Banana Joe was cute, but not our first choice either.

Kelly and the girls are coming this afternoon to help out and bring Barb a Tuscany chicken dinner from Boston Market. When she was in the hospital she saw the ad for it about 50 times, and now she HAS to have one!

Wasn’t this Joe’s last year in competition? If so, at least he went out in a blaze of glory.
Mom liked the Spuds McKenzie dog too.
One bit of information from the show…who knew that pugs shed? Riö, How is this possible? Youse guys look so sleek.

Still very disappointed in the dog show. So many beautiful dogs and the judge picks the monkey faced dog!

Siber and OHs, at one point the announcer mentioned Siber’s blowing their coat. Mom felt pretty smart that she was familiar with that.

Rio, last night you posted some info about the Pug breed. After reading the info, we feel your brutal walks may be dog abuse. Read about wheezing etc. We believe your post mentioned short easy walks! Be ready with that info. Spring is coming.

Wookie’s Dad and Debbie LM, thinking about you today. We all still miss him.

Thank you, AJ, for the story. We remember it from last year. We expect those 2 will be with you this year too.

Gus and BooBear, Our mom says that your mom is not nearly familiar enough with the concept of blowing one’s coat in Spring. She said that your mom is more than welcome to come up here to experience this phenomenon first-hand. heh heh heh

OleyHowlers: yes, Two Rivers is close by me. I had planned to go into Fairbanks and watch the arriving teams but was called into work 3 hours early today to fill in plus work my regular shift. Darn! But if I am not too tired after work, I might go ahead and go in.

Just finished “Joe Vs the Volcano”. One of my favorite films. The reason I decided to watch it was YSAS and SO wee watching a commercial and it was about a new syndrome that someone has come up with. YSAS said it just sounded like people reacting to life, but he had to laugh at the graphics. It was a picture of a brain with a storm in it.

Rio – if you aren’t careful, you will end up walking funny…that is if you keep letting Melanie pull one of your legs

tee hee

Back in high school, a wonderful German teacher allowed us to play with a classic old German love poem. We changed it from saying – “You are like a flower. So sweet and fair and pure.”
to: Du bist wei eine affe (you are like a monkey) So dunkel, stinkend und schlecht (so dark and smelly and bad). That word affe is indelibly imprinted on our brain.

Gus puppy had to go the V-E-T today because he cut his leg clear down to the joint. We are not sure what he caught it on, but he had to have lots of stitches. Mom says not to laugh at him when he comes home wearing a bucket on his head. I won’t. I promise. Really.

Snowhook!… The Snowhook Team have come up with an excellent way the Plunderers can “join” AJ and the A-Team on the trail again this year. Last year, he carried photos of dogs, kats and even a horse. This year they are thinking of creating a Plunderer playlist and inviting the Plunderers to email the title of the song and name of the artist.

Music!….It could be your favorite song or a song that reminds you of the race, the dogs, or a song you feel might motivate or inspire our Giant on the many miles of the trail.

SDD!…So please quick as a bunny send Rebecca a special SDD with your favorite song and don’t forget to include the artist or band you specifically want the Giant to listen to…snort! …I personally think this as Great Idea!….Wooooo!

Staff!…Excellant!…Please do remember to send an “Official” SDD to Rebecca, so she can gather all the song requests and order them for the Giant…snort! …I’m sure we all will want to hear the selections on this here blog too!..Wooooo!

Yeep and wheeze! I am very excited AJ will have a plunderer playlist on the trail!

I am traveling tomorrow. What I didn’t realize when I left for work this morning I my flight leaves at 7am. This would mean I need to leave the house at 420am. I am opting to stay in town which means a trip to a box store for a toothbrush and tooth paste, clean skivvies and a cheap shirt.

Oops. Typed that before seeing G&BB’s which we don’t know.
Mom wants us to pick her very fav song “Cowboy Take Me Away” by the Dixie Chicks. She even uses that for her phone’s ringtone. The lyrics about the world without buildings or people seem to fit life on the trail.

Debbie LM and Wookies Dad.
Very impressed here with the quilt total. Wonderful job for all of you. I know Wookie was watching over you all.
Here is a wonderful photo from a previous quilt day with the Wookster.

Count!…102 and we are still up watching Justified…heh!…My friend says she is not going back to that busy-place ever again, but I don’t believe her…sniff!…Someone has to pay for my Snowhook donations and someone has to pay for my treaties…wuffle…Its always been her. So there’s all of my logic.

Music!…The music on Justiifed this season is EXCELLANT!…snort!…I’m not talking about the theme song, I’m talking about the music within the show…heh!..Mr Staff is missing out big time by not watching this show…grunt!

Rio – we are so impressed by your Bobs. We don’t know how to do that. But we did just find a really great song that we are going to send to Rebecca. We will post the video tomorrow too.
And for now – g’night all.